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THE WAY OF YU-SOO 

PLAY IN ONE ACT l>y WM. T. DEMAREST 



1917 



THE WAY OF YU-SOO 

A Play in the Chinese Style 
"By 

William T, Demarest 



WM. T. DEMAREST, MARMARONECK, NEW YORK 



Copyright. 1917 by Wm. T. Demarest 






For permission to give this play 
apply to Wm. T. Demarest 
Marmaroneck, N. Y. 



'C1,A470293 



JUL 18 1917 



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The Way of Yu-Soo 

A Chinese Play by William T. Demarest 
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Characters : 

Lee Yu-soo — A wealthy Chinese orphan. 

Chang San-yee — A poor but estimable young man. 

Chang Yuan^han — His widowed mother. 

Lau Chin-hung — A young woman eligible for matrimony. 

Lau Wei-ju — Her mother. 

Wong Nai-m^en — Yu-soo's servant. 

Chorus. 

Property Man. 



The first production of this play was by The Player's 
Club of Mamaroneck, on July 20, 1917, at Kindergarten 
Hall, Mamaroneck, N. Y., with the following cast : 

Lee Yu-soo — Miss Jean Baxter. 

Chang San-yee — Mr. Herbert Houghton. 

Chang Yuan-han — Miss Constance Remond. 

Lan Chin-hung — Miss Edna May. 

Lau Wei-ju — Miss Madeline Hollerith. 

Wong Nai-wen — Mr. John B. Findlay. 

Chorus — Mr. Charles M. Baxter, Jr. 

Property Man — ^Mr. Francis Jones. 



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The Way of Yu'Soo 

The play is to be produced in the Chinese style, with- 
out s.cenery. Simple draperies may he used of a neutral 
tint, framing the e^itire stage, Chinese banners may he 
hung on the walls. There should he two entrances, one 
R. and one L., both of them as near the back of stage as 
possible. Throughout the play Chorus [and Property 
Man are on the stage, the former seated at a small 
table at the rear, facing front, the latter on a stool 
at the L. side, beside a box containing the properties 
which he produces and hands to the actors when needed. 
Property Man is to preserve an indifferent attitude, 
reading paper, smoking cigarette, etc., and when it is 
necessary for him to move about the stage, handle prop' 
erties, etc., he is to appear greatly bored. The curtain 
should separate at center, being draped on either side 
when open. 

When the play is about to begin Property Man appears 
between curtains bearing Chinese gong, which he strikes 
three times slowly at center of stage, in front of curtains, 
three times L. and three times R. He stands R. as 
Chorus appears between curtains, stands at center and 
addresses audience. 

Chorus: Exalted friends, I humbly crave your par- 
don for forcing myself upon your august attention. I 
bow to Heaven, Earth and Man. {Bovd^s to right, left 
and center, saying as he does so) 1 bow, I bow, I bow. 

It is my honorable pleasure to tell you the theme of 
our poor play, v/hich deals not with Emperors, Lords, or 
otherwise exalted personages, but with honorable and 
ordinary individuals such as I who weary your sublime 
ears. Ours is a story of filial duty and great love. Your 



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sympathies will be honorably commanded by our hero, 
and your eyes will fill with tears as you behold his sor- 
rows and perplexities. You will be moved to sublime 
anger by our heroine, although you will be certain to 
admire her. I humbly ask you to remember, before your 
condemnation is complete, that even in our Celestial King- 
dom a maiden must dissemble, covering exalted emotic-ns 
with bitter, scornful words. 

You will not find your august minds in sympathy with 
our two mothers ; but our customs are not as yours. With 
us mothers still have authority, and, especially when they 
are happily widows, are the heads of their families. 

Let your exalted emotions move you as they will as 
the tale unfolds. If you are honorably seized with mirth, 
forget not that sombre sorrow may swiftly overtake you. 
When your precious tears fall copiously to the ground, 
take comfort in the thought that the Way of Yu-soo is 
the way to happiness and sublime contentment. 

But I hear the players murmuring because of the great 
number of my exalted words. They desire to be brought 
to your honorable attention so that you may recognize 
them as the play sublimely proceeds. 

A supremely unpleasant task is best accomplished 
quickly, and so I first point out to your discerning eyes 
our Property Man (points to P. M-), a necessary but 
cumbersome adjunct to our play. He scorns the actors, 
deeming himself the superior of each. He thinks the 
play ill- written, much poorer than he himself might in- 
scribe. He will show his scorn and contempt as the 
play unfolds, but we have clothed him in black and you 
will see him ndt. (P. M. shrugs his shoulders and lights 
cigarette.) 

Next you shall place your delicious eyes upon Wong 
Nai-wen. (He appears between curtains, bd(ws once and 
retires.) He is an honest servant of little importance 
who must not be mistaken for the villain, as the play has 
no such person. 

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Our hero, Chang San-yee (enters, bows, etc.), whom 
you shall see unfortunately divided between love and 
filial duty. 

His mother, Chang Yuan-han (enters, etc.), who may 
not attain to the heights of your sympathy, but who 
should command your exalted and honorable respect. 

Observe in the next to appear Lau Chin-hung (enters, 
etc.), a pleasant girl who, like some of you, is not averse 
to rnatrimony^ 

Her mother, Lau Wei-ju (enters, etc.), a mercenary 
person, as to whose wisdom you shall be honorably free 

to decide. 

At a banquet it is profitable to reserve the choicest 
morsel to the last, and so I now present to our exalted 
patrons our heroine, Lee Yu-soo (enters, etc.), a most 
charming young lady with a will and a way that you 
shall sublimely admire. She is fortunate, for if her 
parents, uncles, aunts and other relatives had not pre- 
ceded her to her ancestors, our play must have had a 
different ending. 

And now I shall honorably conduct you to the humble 
home of Chang Yuan-han. 

Curtains open. Chorus goes to his seat at the rear. 
Property Alan places table mith ancestral tablets R, chair 
at L center. Chorus rises. Chang Yuan-han enters R 
and sits on chair L center. 

Chorus: Our widowed friend, the mother of Chang 
San-yee, also her son. (Chang San-yee enters L.) 

San-yee (Bowing before Yuan-han) : Honorable 
mother, the years deal kindly with you. Sublime youth 
is apparent in your countenance. 

Yuan-han : Respected son, your good heart sends 
false words to your lips. My days of youth are sublime- 

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ly spent, and I now look forward to the time when I 
shall go to my ancestors. 

San-yee: Our ancestors will honorably wait long for 
you, exalted mother. No flower in the garden of Lee 
Yu-soo surpasses you in beauty and sublime health. 

Yuan-han: Your good wishes again beget words of 
untruth. Already do I find the household tasks heavy 
and burdensome, but I have a sublime plan to add com- 
fort to my remaining years. 

San-yee : A plan ? 

Yuan-han: Yes, an exalted plan. You must hear 
about it, for tomorrow you are to help bring it into 
honorable execution. 

San-yee : Whait have I to do with the accomplishment 
of your august plan? 

Yuan-han : It most honorably concerns you. As a 
dutiful son you have not allowed your exalted thoughts 
to dwell upon marriage, but long ago you became a man 
and it was my duty to find a sublime wife for you. 

San-yee (startled) : A wife ! I cannot marry a wife. 

Yuan-han : Your words come without thought. Shall 
I be deprived of a sublime daughter >to serve and attend 
my wants before I go to my ancestors? I have honor- 
ably decided that you shall have a wife and I have ar- 
ranged that she shall come tomorrow. 

San-yee (much troubled) : Do not tell me that it is 
arranged, exalted mother, (with -finality) I cannot have 
a wife. 

Yuan-han (angry) : Waste not your words. A wife 
you shall sublimely have. Tomorrow you bow together 
before your ancestral tablets. 

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San-yee: Can a man be married against his honor- 
able will? 

YuAN-HAN : Yes, when his exalted mother wills it. But 
you will not offend our ancestors by opposing them and 
objecting to my sublime plan.. 

San-yee: If this unhappy occurrence is to transpire, 
I should be sublimely informed concerning the unhappy 
woman. 

YuAN-HAN : Now my honorable son begins to show 
the wisdom of his ancestors. The mother of Lau Chin- 
hung has hooiorably joined me in the contracts and the 
girl will come to you tomorrow. 

San-yee (despondently): Tomorrow! Gone are my 
exalted dreams. 

YuAN-HAN : What dreams are these ? 

San-yee: They have been horribly killed by your 
plan, and I go with wretched sorrow to my labors in 
the garden of Lee Yu-soo. (Exit L.) 

Yuan-han : What foolish variety of man is this who 
shuns a sublime wife? (Exit R.) 

Property man removes chair, table and tablets 
to side of stage near his box. Hangs golden disk, rep- 
resenting sun at side of stage L. Chorus rises. 

Chorus : We will discreetly precede the unhappy San- 
yee to his place of dreaming, the garden of Yu-soo. Ob- 
serve him come with depressing woe. 

Enter San-yee L. walking very slowly with head 
bowed. Property man takes potted plant from his 
box and stands it on stage near center. Then takes 
primitive hoe from box and hands to San-yee, who 
begins to cultivate the ground zvith it. Property 
man takes long stemmed flower from box, holds 

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it at arm's length near San-yee, who smells it and 
heaves long sigh, then resumes labors. Property 
man tosses flower into box, takes long bamboo pole 
from corner of stage, holds it horizontally with end at 
R. entrance. Chorus rises. 

Chorus: Yu-soo the beautiful comes over the bridge 
to visit her garden, (sits) 

Enter Yu-soo across imaginary bridge, her hand 
on bamboo pole as on railing. She is follozved at re- 
spectful distance by servant, Nai-wen, also across 
bridge. Property man stands pole in corner, takes 
large pillow from box and hands to Nai-wen, who 
places it on ground near where San-yee is at work, 
then retires and stands near R. exit throughout 
scene. Yu-soo seats herself on pillow and observes 
San-yee. 

Yu-soo (As with authority) : Why spend so much 
f ooHsh energy upon the iris, which needs it not. Observe 
the honorable needs of the peonies. 

San-yee starts, bows humbly to Yu-soo, then walks 
to stage L. to which Property man moves the potted 
plant. San-yee cultivates as before. After a brief 
pause, during which Yu-soo watches San-yee with 
interest. 

Yu-soo: Why appears my gardener sublimely down- 
cast? Do the beautiful flowers no longer give joy to 
his soul? 

San-yee (stops work and bows) : Gracious employer, 
I have a miserable sorrow. 

Yu-soo : Observe the dry earth of the peach tree. Make 
it honorably loose, (points R.) 

Property m^an moves potted plant to stage R. San 
Yee goes to it and works as before. 

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Yu-soo: An exalted young man may have no place 
for sorrow, especially in my garden, when the day is 
honorably beautiful, the flowers sublimely fragrant, and 
the birds sing with supreme gayety. (onuses a moment, 
then with authority) Tell me about it. 

San-yee: I sorrow, honorable patroness, (bozus) be- 
cause my exalted mother has arranged that I shall 
marry. (Yu-soo starts then recovers herself.) 

Yu-soo: Young men are not usually in sorrow from 
such a cause, (pause) There must be another reason. 
This morning I seek sublime amusement. Tell me all 
your sorrows that I may laugh at them. 

San-yee: I desire not to tell, but you command me. 
My heart is overwhelmed, honorable lady, because I 
have been dreaming foolishly. 

Yu-soo: Dreaming of what? 

San-yee (hesitates a moment, then with a gesture of 
desperation) : Of love. 

Yu-soo (laughing) : That is a dream which leads to 
exalted happiness, for now you shall have a sublime wife 
on whom to bestow your ignoble love. 

San-yee turns away sorrowfully. 

Yu-soo (stamping her foot and frowning) : You have 
been giving me deceitful words. You have not told me 
everything. 

San-yee: Honorable lady, even a poor servant may 
dream and yet fear to tell his dreams. 

Yu-soo : Tell me ! I would be entertained. 

San-yee: I dare not tell you all, and yet I dare not 
refuse to obey your command. I shall merit your su- 
preme disapproval, and perhaps may never again be able 

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to turn my appreciative eyes upon your hitherto kindly 
face. But I will tell you, remembering that the Gods 
made me what I am and sent my dreams to me. For 
they have been of you, exalted lady. While I have 
labored in your garden every flower has reminded me 
of your grace and sublime beauty. Every bird that 
sings reminds me of your sympathetic voice. Even the 
gentle rain, bringing refreshment to these flowers, re- 
minds me of the kindness of your exalted presence which 
gives life to my soul. {Yu-soo turns fiace away to hide 
emotion) I knew that you would turn away in disap- 
proval and in anger, but the Gods sent the dreams — the 
Gods sent you to bring me happy thoughts, which I 
kept in my personal soul until you commanded that I 
tell you of my sorrow. 

Yu-soo: Ungracious servant, is this the return that 
you make for my passing interest in one who attends 
my flowers? Dreaming of me! (laughs) You sorrow 
because your honorable mother has chosen a wife for 
you. Perhaps you think her exalted choice should have 
fallen upo'n me. (laughs) Truly I have found the amuse- 
ment that I sought, (more seriously) You must be pun- 
ished for your presumption! I will devise something 
supremely fitting, so that you shall never dream again. 

San-yee : No sublime punishment you may bestow 
could add to my sorrows. Life without dreams of hap- 
piness is impossible. I cannot m:arry Yu-soo. I cannot 
marry any other. Therefore I shall die. No punish- 
ment can reach me when I am with my ancestors. 

Yu-soo: Ha, ha, ha, ha. (Exit Yu-soo across bridge 
R., followed by servant) 

San-yee looks after her as she goes slowly out, 
then lies down. Property man places red pillow 
under his head. 

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San-yee: I shall withhold my honorable breath until 
my heart beatings have terminated {after a pause) I die. 

Property man changes gold sun to silver moon 
which he hangs on R. of stage. Lights can he 
somewhat lowered. Yu-soo enters over bridge as 
before, this time without servant. She looks about 
in the dim light, stepping cautiously to avoid the 
flowers. Suddenly observes San-yee and rushes to 
his side. 

Yu-soo: Oh! My dreams also are ended for San-yee 
has honorably ceased to breathe. Why did I laugh at 
him? He might have been graciously pleased with his 
punishment, but it is now too late, (stoops over and 
kisses him — San-yee stirs, and Yu-soo hurriedly with- 
draws a few paces and watches him. San-yee sits up 
slowly and looks about without seeing Yu-soo) 

San-yee: What called me back from my journey to 
my ancestors? Was it a summons from the Gods? 
(pause) Why do they not speak further to me? (Pause) 
It seemed a pleasant summons. 

Yu-soo (coming closer) : San-yee, augustly arise and 
stand in my presence. Do you forget your honorable 
respect ? 

(San-yee scrambles to his feet, bewildered. Does not 
yet see Yu-soo) 

San-yee: The voice of the God sounds much like 
the dulcet conversation of Yu-soo. 

Yu-soo : Stand forth, San-yee and receive your punish- 
ment. 

San-yee looks in direction of voice, discovers 
Yu-soo and drops to his knees before her. 

San-yee: Beautiful lady, was it your summons that 
brought me back from my ancestors? 

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Yu-soo: You thought to escape the punishment I 
promised to visit upon your presumption, but I have 
brought you back that you may suffer adequately. 
{archly) You still sublimely assert that you admire me 
greatly ? 

San-yee: I supremely love you. 

Yu-soo {sev^erely) : Vile creature, then you richly 
deserve to be punished. I command that you shall re- 
turn to your miserable home, there to carry out the wishes 
of your honorable mother; bowing before the tablets 
of your ancestors with the girl who shall be brought 
to be your wife. If you accept this punishment, you may 
afterward come and work in my garden, and sometimes 
you may see me — from an honorable distance. 

San-yee: You will sometimes be kind to me if I do 
this hateful thing? 

Yu-soo: Yes, but not otherwise. 

San-yee {with resolution) : Then I go. Farewell, sub- 
lime benefactress, {e.vit L.) 

Yu-soo: What a deliciously exalted punishment; {ex- 
it over bridge R. as before) 



CURTAIN. 



After intermission of not more than thirty sec- 
onds, Property man appears before curtains zvith 
gong, which he strikes three times, standing R. as 
Chorus appears between curtains. 

Chorus: Honorable friends, our play has been sus- 
pended these few moments so that you might dry your 
tears and compose your emotions for what is to follow. 
Let not your sublime sadness weigh too heavily upon 

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you. Trust in Yu-soo and you shall soon be happy. 
A very little delicious villainy will obtrude itself upon 
your exalted attention as we now transport you to the 
home of Lau Wei-ju, upon the day when her daughter, 
Lau Chin-hung, is to be wedded to Chang San-yee. 

Chorus aud P. M. retire through curtains, which 
quickly part discovering P. M. arranging table with 
ancestral tablets on L. and placing chair near table. 
Enter Lau Wei-ju and Lau Chin-hung L, 

Chorus: The Honorable widow Lau Wei-ju and her 
expectant daughter. 

Chin-hung (as they enter) : But what kind of man 
is this who is to be my exalted husband? 

Wei-ju: An honorable, hard-working gardener. 

Chin-hung: A gardener? 

Wei-ju : What would you have for a husband, an ex- 
alted mandarin? 

Chin-hung: I hope he has a sublimely beautiful 
countenance. 

Wei-ju : It is more important that he should be able 
to provide you with sublimely plentiful rice. 

Chorus: The delicious villainy is to begin. Behold 
the servant of Lee Yu-soo, Wong Nai-wen. 

Enter Wong Nai-wen R. Property man goes to 
center of stage 'and opens imaginary door into*' 
ho7ne of Lau Chin-hung. Wong Nai-wen passes 
through door, up two imaginary steps and bows 
before Lau Wei-ju. 

Wong Nai-wen: Do I address the honorable Lau 
Wei-ju, whose beautiful daughter is to become the wife 
of Chang San-yee? 

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Wei-ju : I am the widow, Lau Wei-ju and this is my 
daughter Chin-huing who goes shortly to the home of 
San-yee. (Nai-wen bows to dmighter) Who is my hon- 
orable visitor? 

Nai-wen : I am Wong Nai-wen, a merchant from 
the adjacent province. I must explain my humble in- 
trusion into this home. I knew the father of Chang 
San-yee, who took diabolical advantage of me in a 
business enterprise. I appealed to the Mandarin, but 
the other bribed him with much gold and I was expelled 
from the presence after there had been exacted from 
me a villainous fine. I vowed to the Gods to have 
revenge, but the miscreant went to his ancestors before 
the door of opportunity was opened before me. I went 
to the temple this morning where I overheard one say 
that the daughter of Lau Wei-ju was to bow to-day be- 
fore the ancestral tablets of Chang San-yee. I hastened 
to your home in the sublime hope that I might prevent 
this detestable sacrifice. 

Wei-j u : My daughter is not to marry the father who 
mistreated you, but the son. There is therefore no de- 
testable sacrifice. 

Nai-wen: In your innocent seclusion you are evi- 
dently not informed of the deceitful character of San- 
yee. He is a base-born dissembler. A hater of women. 
He does not want to marry your daughter, and will beat 
her when she is in his power. 

Wei-ju: What can I undertake now? The marriage 
settlements are arranged and in a short time I must go 
with my daughter to the home of San-yee. 

Nai-wen : I will arrange it for you. Here is gold 
(property man hands money bag to Nai-wen, who passes 
it to Wei-ju). With this you may purchase the good 
will of the mother of San-yee — But wait — I have a 

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subtler plan, which will bring me revenge upon the son 
of my enemy. You keep the gold, and I will shortly 
bring to you a low-born creature whom you shall present 
veiled at the home of San-yee, stating that your daughter 
has vowed not to remove her veil until she shall be unal- 
terably married to San-yee. There will be no benighted 
suspicion, and when they have bowed to the ancestral 
tablets and the veil is lifted, San-yee will be supremely 
disgraced. 

Wei-ju {fondling the bag of money) : How much 
gold is here? 

Nai-wen: Enough to make your deliciously innocent 
dau^ter the wife of a mandarin. 

Chin-hung {kneeling before Wei-ju) : I should be 
Honorably enchanted to be the bride of an exalted 
mandarin. 

Wei-ju {again fondling the money bag: I cannot 
deafen my ears to the tearful pleas of my supremely 
dutiful daughter. Brmg hither the low-bom creature. 

Nai-wen : She is just without, {goes to door, which is 
opened by Property man, and beckons. Enter Yu-soo, 
veiled. She crosses stage to door, up the two imaginary 
steps, into the home of Wei-ju. Property man closes 
door) 

Nai-wen: This is the creature. She will bring to 
San-yee a sublimely miserable life, and I shall have 
revenge. 

Wei-ju : I will take her at once to the home of Chang 
Yuan-han, for the hour has come. 

Nai-wen: And I will go with you, appear as an 
honorable friend of your exalted family, and sublimely 
perceive my revenge. 

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Chin-hung : I also willi go, lingering outside the door 
until all is over, so that I may then enter and honorably 
observe the disreputable gardener from whom I have 
had a sudden escape. 

• All exit through door, "which is again opened by 
Property man, down the two steps and off stage. 

Property man moves table with tablets to oppo- 
site side of stage (R.) placing two chairs, side by 
side at back center. Chorus comes forward to front. 

Chorus: You will honorably return to the home of 
Chang Yuan-han, which is prepared for the marriage 
of Chang San-yee and Lau Chin-hung. The sorrowful 
young man comes with his mother to await the bride. 
{Chorus goes to his station. Enter Yuan-han and Scm^ 
yee R.) 

Yuan-han : Your bride is now hastening to your side, 
for I looked from the doorway and saw Lau Wei-ju 
turning into the street. Assume a joyful manner. This 
is a day of which you should be honorably proud; it is 
no time to be sad and downcast. 

San-yee (dejectedly) : I wish that I had sublimely 
joined my ancestors before I had reached this unhappy 
occasion. I am to endure punishment for that which 
I could not change, and my sorrow will go with me 
while I continue miserably to exist. 

Yuan-han: What talk is this of punishment? This 
most excellent arrangement is for your happiness and my 
comfort. 

San-yee (despondently) : I would that I could honor- 
ably believe it. 

Chorus: The bride approaches with her sublime and 
mercenary mother, and the vengeful Wong Nai-wen. 

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The young lady who has lost her arranged for husband 
will soon peep in the doorway. 

Enter L. Lau Wei-ju, Lee Yu-soo {veiled) and 
Wong Nai-wen. Chang San-yee still sulkily R,, half 
turning his hack upon the guests. Chang Yuan-han 
crosses stage to meet the party, addressing herself 
to Lau Wei-ju. 

Chang Yuan-han: I bow to you, honorable friend 
(bows) and welcome you to this humble dwelling place 
to which you bring exalted happiness. My enthusiastic 
son is overcome at the honor you bestow upon our house, 
but adds his greetings to my poor efforts, (turns toward 
San-yee) San-yee, welcome our sublime guests. 

San-yee (turning toward Wei-ju) : I bow. (bows) 

Wei-ju: Your greetings overwhelm my worthless 
daughter and myself. My sorrow is great at parting 
with her, poor although she is, and she demanded that 
I should bring her veiled before you, so that you should 
not observe her ignoble emotions. I could not deny 
the last desire of my daughter, and her face must remain 
hidden until she has bowed before your ancestral tablets. 
You will honorably consent? 

Yuan-han: It is not in accordance with my sublime 
desire, but perhaps it is well that my honorable son 
should not be permitted to observe her ugly countenance 
or he might shun the ceremony. (Observing Nai-wen) 
Is this some member of your exalted family? 

Wei-ju: It is Wong Nai-wen, an honorable friend 
of the Lau family. 

Nai-wen (to Yuan-han) : 1 bow. (bows) 

Yuan-han I bow. (bow^) 

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Wei-ju (nervously) : Let the ceremony proceed, 
it is a miserable omen of misfortune to delay when the 
bride has reached the sublime house of the young man's 
mother. 

YuAN-HAN : It is honorably said. Come forward, 
San-yee, and take the hand of the miserable creature who 
is to share our exalted dwelling place. 

San-yee comes reluctantly forward to the side 
of Yu'See, tries to peer through her veil, and finally, 
after evident effort, takes her hand. Yuan-han and 
Wei-ju seating themselves, meanwhile, upon the 
two chairs. San-yee and Yu-see face the ancestral 
tablets and together bow to them three times, slow- 
ly. At each bo\w the Property man strikes gong 
once. San-yee and Yu-soo then move across and face 
the two mothers, again bowing three times slowly. 

Wet-ju : Now the unhappy wife may remove her ob- 
jectionable veil, in order that her husband may share 
her misery. 

Nai-wen steps forward, bows ceremoniously to 
Yu-soo, then slozviy lifts her veil. San-yee turns 
away, refusing to look at Yu-soo. Yuan-han looks, 
topples from her chair to the floor in a swoon. Prop- 
erty m.an places pillow under her head. Chin-hung 
enters L. and stands betwildered just inside the door. 

Yu-soo : San-yee, look at me. I am your punishment. 

San-yee turns, startled, recognizes Yu-soo, drops 
to one knee before her and kisses her hand. 

San-yee: My exalted and beautiful dream lady. 



CURTAIN. 
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After a moment or two, Chorum appears between 
curtains. 

Chorus: My honorable thanks go to our exalted 
patrons for their appreciation of our humble play. I 
feel sublime gratitude that my efforts have met with such 
reward, for I am the supreme master mind of this pro- 
duction. Without me , 

Murmuring is heard on stage, Chorus hestitafes, 
then makes a gesture of resigning to the inevitable, 
moves R., curtains part showing company lined up 
Property man L. end. Chorus takes place at right 
end. All together bow once toward audience. Prop- 
erty man strikes gong three tim^. 



FINAL CURTAIN. 



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